Manager Engineering

Job Description

We are seeking a results-driven Engineering Manager to lead our Replenishment and Supplier Management engineering team at Albertsons. This is a first-line people manager role with primary accountability for delivery execution, team effectiveness, engineering quality, and production reliability. The ideal candidate combines a strong software engineering foundation with practical people leadership and the ability to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure solutions aligned with enterprise business objectives.

Experience Range:

9 - 12 years

Position Title:Manager Engineering

Roles & responsibilities:

• Own execution and delivery of engineering commitments, ensuring predictable outcomes, high quality, and alignment with product priorities.
• Lead and grow a high-performing team of engineers through regular one-on-ones, feedback, career development, and clear performance expectations.
• Recruit, onboard, and retain engineering talent while fostering accountability, inclusion, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Data Science, UX, and Business teams to translate priorities into executable plans for warehouse replenishment and supplier management capabilities.
• Track milestones, dependencies, risks, capacity, and delivery metrics, and drive timely resolution of issues that affect execution.
• Provide technical guidance through design reviews, architecture discussions, and engineering standards without acting as the sole solution architect.
• Champion engineering excellence, agile delivery, automated testing, code review, continuous integration and delivery, observability, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure application availability, performance, resiliency, security, and modularity across the portfolio.
• Drive responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools, including GitHub Copilot or similar capabilities, to improve developer productivity, code quality, test automation, documentation, and delivery velocity.
• Communicate delivery status, trade-offs, risks, and outcomes clearly to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

Required Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 9-12 years of relevant technology experience, including 7+ years in software, platform, or integration engineering and 3+ years leading technical teams.
• Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale applications, APIs, integrations, and distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on engineering background in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and event-driven architecture.
• Experience with at least one enterprise messaging or event-streaming technology such as Kafka, Databrick, or a comparable platform.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, including technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Working knowledge of AWS or Azure or GCP and modern cloud-native engineering practices.
• Experience leading Agile teams and managing scope, capacity, dependencies, risks, and release commitments.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, stakeholder management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with distributed data processing platforms such as Spark or Databricks.
• Knowledge of web user-interface technologies such as React, Angular, and single-page applications.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes or container platforms, automated testing, and observability.
• Familiarity with GitHub Copilot or similar AI-assisted developer productivity tools and responsible-use practices.
• Experience in supply chain, inventory management, replenishment, supplier collaboration, warehouse operations, forecasting, or order management.
• Experience working with distributed teams and partner or vendor resources.

Competencies:

• Compassionate and kind, showing courtesy, dignity, & respect. They show sincere interest & empathy for all others.
• Show integrity in what is done and how it is done - without sacrificing

personal/business ethics.

• Team-oriented, positively contributing to team morale & willing to help.
• Learning-Focused, finding ways to improve in their field and use positive constructive feedback to grow personally and professionally